Philippe Chow’s popular Upper East Side eatery turns out tasty dishes and plenty of profits – but that didn’t keep one minority investor from running into financial trouble.

Dave 60 NYC, a holding company that owns a minority stake in Philippe, filed for Chapter 11 in Manhattan bankruptcy court.

The filing, by Joseph Goldsmith, president of Dave 60 NYC, lists liabilities of up to $1 million.

Chow, a star chef, turned his Chinese restaurant, Philippe, into a destination for such A-listers as Carmelo Anthony, Rihanna and Kobe Bryant. He went on to open swank outposts in other cities — although those locations have closed.

This comes on the heels of a complaint filed against Philippe in January, alleging the restaurant does not pay its employees the minimum wage, steals their tips and operates a hostile work environment in which kitchen staffers have had plates thrown at them. The case is still being adjudicated.

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Reps for Philippe Chow and the restaurant did not respond to requests for comment at presstime, but did provide this statement on Saturday: “Merchants Hospitality, Inc. is the new managing partner of Philippe and brings over 30 years of experience to the restaurant, hotel and luxury hospitality industry and is expanding the Philippe Chow brand globally.”

Merchants Hospitality is only invested in the NYC restaurant. The Beverly Hills outpost, which has separate investors, closed a few months ago, leaving the Big Apple eatery the last one standing.

Philippes in Boca Raton, Miami and East Hampton have also shut down in the past several years.

Aside from its celebrity clientele, Philippe, on East 60th Street near Fifth Avenue, has attracted some other deep-pocketed admirers who became investors in 2011.

Steven Kantor a former head of investment banking at Cantor Fitzgerald, and Steven Boxer, whose late father, Leonard Boxer was a founding partner of Liz Claiborne, are shareholders in Dave 60 NYC. But the rest of Philippe’s ownership is a laundry list of llcs, nearly a dozen, according to the labor complaint in January.